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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3496)	7/14/2004 5:20:32 AM
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I see you still missed all of the salient points. It was the expressed "opinion" of the Ombudsman, not factual evidence of real pressure from the Bush Admin. It was an "opinion" based the Ombudsman's "feelings" after interviews with a few analysts who, "gave the sense they felt the constant questions and pressure to reexamine issues were unreasonable". There were literally hundreds of analysts & managers who provided explicit testimony unequivocally establishing there was no pressure from the Bush Admin. That's why this baseless, unsupportable "opinion" did not make it into the report. And the Senate Committee Report unanimously concluded there was no pressure from the Bush Admin & it is what the report states in no uncertain terms. What you are doing is taking out of context selective quotes from a segment that did not make it into the report & you are distorting what was said there. The Additional Views segment was where they placed material that was deemed unworthy for inclusion in the official report.